Guest columnist: Truth is first casualty of war

The truth is the first casualty of war, and President Donald Trump’s White House is determined to make independent journalism the second.
Trump’s Sept. 18 announcement that CNN, MS NOW, and Politico would be barred from the White House is not a personality clash or a disposable social-media provocation. It is an attack on the machinery by which Americans learn whether their government is telling the truth.
The White House defended it as a necessary response to organizations it accuse